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>> i'll write it down. >> you can finish it tonight. >> my name is rudee, and i live at the motor inn, the motel. when i was on the street, i used to be homeless, and because my dad was trying to look for work and they -- then he got money so we lived in a shelter and then the shelter got us into a program. and then the program -- the program got us into the motel.

in was the bushes. >> what was that like? >> like it was kind of embarrassing because they had people looking at us. >> how come your parents don't work? >> well, my dad does. >> what does he do? >> he's a mechanic. he works on cars. >> what is home to you? >> home? i don't really know what that means. >> so why are you still living in a motel? >> the rent in orange counáy is very expensive. for a studio room it's probably

like $1300, $1500. this is actually cheap. $870 a month is cheap. we could afford that. i don't think we could afford more than $870. we're scared to move out. i'm scared to move out. i don't know about rudee's dad but i'm scared to move out because i don't want to be on the street again. >> why do you live in orange county if you can't afford to live here. county all our lives.d in orange where else would we live? my parents were middle class. we don't come from people that were on welfare or low income. we come from -- all my brothers and sisters own houses. ike the poorest one in the family. >> do you think living in this hotel is damaging rudee? >> no. i think it depends on the person -- the person themselves because what happens inside here is a family environment. >> you are saying it doesn't matter where you live to have a home? >> right. it could even be your car. like our car was rudee's house, her room. i had it fixed up with little

dollies on one side to make it like a little home for her. >> ready, begin. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it t) r'divisible with liberty and justice for all. >> project hope was a school set up for children that were homeless. for those families that don't have a permanent residence and so no matter where they go from shelter a to shelter b and they've lived in this park and they live in this motel all in the same school year, they stay s project hope. they don't have to keep changing districts. so what we're looking at with them is that they need a little oving care. >> your favorite food? >> oh, my favorite is --

>> favorite color? >> favorite color? as soon as the third graders have done their mountain mouth can you go to sra? >> we understand if you come to school and you are wearing the same clothes for 30 days, nobody is going to make fun of you. ♪ from the mountains through the prairies to the oceans white with foam ♪ à♪ god bless america my home sweet home ♪ ♪ god bless america my home -- >> my hair in a mohawk. okay. mohawks first. >> we have the buses from the boys and girls club that our foundation pays every morning to go around and pick them up and then they take them home every evening. >> what are you playing? >> cops and robbers. >> so no matter where they go,

and if they move tonight, we make arrangements for áhe bus stops they need. >> it all started when our mom died and we got kicked out. and we went to go live with a friend. e ended up here.

so we're going to hope school for the summer. >> why are you wearing tap shoes? >> oh, they're my favorite. >> do you know how to tap dance? >> yeah. i like to climb stuff. i usually climb trees and stuff, and i climb up roofs. people say it's too dangerous, but i'm not scared. we try to keep it as quiet as we ca'. we are just trying to have fun. we're just kids. we better get down. the old woman, that we call the wicked witch, might yell. so we've got to go downstairs because my sister is making too

much noise and we don't want the old woman who we call the wicked witch to call downstairs. that's why. >> i don't like the wicked witch. she's a -- she's mean. she won't let us play. we can't play because my dad doesn't want her to call. so we could get kicked out. >> if you could have o'e wish come true this summer, what would it be? >> redo my life. who is the smartest brother? we're cracking down on medicare fraud.

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who is the smartest brother? >> i am because i'm going to second grade. >> i am because i'm going to third grade. à>> you think your kids are goig to go to college? >> oh, yes. they're going to college. they're going to graduate their senior year. then they're going to have their summer vacation and it's off to college. >> so how much does mom make? >> right now i'm making $14.90 an hour. everything off, medical, taxes, whatever, i bring home about, $885 every two weeks. it's a little tough. i mean, we're managing right ay raise next year, things are

going to start looking a little bit different. jesse was born in april, and i lost my job. and then it followed, my husband lost his and then we got into the motel. >> is it dinnertime? is that what you guys are doing? what are you having for dinner? >> we're having noodles. >> pizza and spaghetti. pasta. >> peace. >> moms going to work. you've got to kiss her good night. mom is the hardest working woman so let's see it. give $er some love. overnight. while you guys are sleeping, mommy is going to be working. >> bye, mom. >> you be a good boy. good boy. yeah, mommy's got to go to work. what does mommy do for work?

>> i'm a cna, certified nursing àassistant. i work on the telemetry floor, which is the heart unit and we're always busy. last night i was swamped. that's why i was in bed all day today. i couldn't move. i was so tired, exhausted. i work on one of the busiest floors in the hospital. >> you work nights. but you hope to get to a day shift? >> right now i want to stay on night shift because if i go to day shift, i lose the night differential and we really can't afford that right now. so that's the reason why i'm staying with night shift. >> you get paid more money to work at night? >> yeah. >> how much more money do you make working at night? >> it's just $1.90 extra but $1.90 is $1.90 on the paycheck. >> those are all your clothes? >> yep. have a hard time looking for the clothes i want to wear. so it takes me time. >> who gets the top bunk? >> i do. >> we do. >> she gets the bottom. >> oh, you guys share the top bunk? >> yes.

>> how is it sleep with your brother? >> he puts his body parts all over me. i get no room. >> and he almost squishes me. he lays on my pillows and he almost squishes me off the bed. >> are you having a good summer? >> yeah. >> what do you hope for this summer? >> i hope for a house. >> you are lucky you have an older sister to do the dishes for you. that's what i do. that's one of my chores, wash dishes, fold clothes. when laundry has been done, make my bed. watch jesse. my chores. >> we're going to take out our garbage. >> my job is to take out the garbage. >> my job is to help him.

>> he missed. the guy pulled out his gun and almost shot the guy, but the bullet hit somewhere else. it hit like the gate and it went in the pool. i heard something go poof! i was like -- they shot -- they shot something in the pool. and i was like, it's a real bullet. and i was afraid that there was -- >> what happened to the guys with the guns? >> they escaped. ♪ >> let's go up the stairs and take a tour. let's see if we can find any drugs. this is the back right here. this is where most of the drugs are at.

actually, the whole place is d8full of drugs. >> how come the police are here? >> i have no idea. >> rudee, let's go. rudee. rudee, come here. get it. go. go. go. look, look.

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ho)js')ju(? >> i'm holding up. just a little tired, but it's okay. i'm used to it. >> what's the "s" mean. >> satisfactory. >what? >> uh-huh. you made it to the fourth grade, but you got all -- mostly all ss, satisfactory. >> what does that mean? >> that means mostly bs and cs. >> what? >> you have to study more. you have to do more homework. you need to stay on top of it. >> mom, i've been bringing my homework every day. >> but i've already told you guys how important school is. you don't play around in school. i have to go through this and see where you need improvement and stuff. so we'll see. it's going to get harder next year. okay. so let's get going.

dad's waiting. it will be okay. she's passed to the fourth grade but the grades in areas were not too good. both her and dylan need to work a lot harder. >> it's okay, celine. we'll deal with it, okay? believe me. i understand. i've had a lot of fs in my days. >> so tell me about your bed. how is your bed? >> my bed has bed bugs. one of them does.

>> so how is the itching going? >> really bad. >> so do you have bed bugs? >> yeah. >> these little red things. yeah. and they hurt bad. >> itching right here. >> and then on my shoulder. on my legs. my feet. >> like on my ankles. >> so you guys both have bed bugs? >> yeah. almost all the rooms do. only some of them don't. >> do you feel them biting you? >> no. like they usually do it in the middle of the night. >> and then you wake up with the bumps. >> yeah. and at first it's like nothing. ike this and you just rub over it. you can feel the bumps and then they just start itching. it hurts. >> whenever they -- whenever there's bed bugs, they just take hem outside and then like whenever they feel like it, they start cleaning the bed and then they reuse them again. but there's still bugs in them.

>> do this! >> what's the worst part about being a homeless kid? à>> it sucks. >> why? >> i don't know why you're asking dumb questions. >> how old are you? >> 6. >> ah!

you butt hole. >> don't leave your candy out. zach! >> how many people do you have >> five.n this room? >> plus how many dogs? >> four. >> they're not dogs. they are like babies. >> they sleep with us in the bed. >> who sleeps where? >> ally and the pooches sleep there with joshua. zach has a cot we put out. this is his bedding we lined the cot up with because he's horrible to sleep with. andrea and i curl up over here and go to sleep. >> so you have to be together no matter what. we have to live in the same room, deal with each other. there's no walls besides the four walls we all share. we don't have walls to run away to. the bathroom is the only sense of security. >> you get no privacy. ou want to watc

something, they are always in the way. every time you want to lay down you always have a dog with you. >> so where are your clothes? >> in the bathroom. here's my -- here's my dresser in here. in the back is my sister's clothes and my brother's clothes and my mom's clothes. >> areñyou happy? >> what do you mean by happy? it's crowded in here. >> well, i'm a 42-year-old widow. i work at disneyland. i just don't make enough to rent an apartment. >> so how long have you been working at disneyland? >> two years. >> and still you don't make enough to have an apartment. >> not yet. i can't afford it right now. >> but you're working. >> yeah.

but i've got to get a second job to make it because you have to have income requirements. i work in the parking department. we make $9.33 an hour. >> so that's not really a living wage for a woman with five kids. >> no. but i've got to get my butt in econd job because i do nursing. so next week i'm going to start looking into that. >> you work at the happiest place on earth. >> oh, yeah. >> is your family the happiest family on earth? >> kind of, sort of. >> not as much as it's supposed to be. >> what? s it's supposed to be. >> why? >> because there's a lot of arguments in our family. >> he's already got a probation officer. he already pulled a stupid >> got in a bunch of trouble. >> but when we went to court, they offered a wrap around program. he finally got his big brother. he's doing a lot better. >> so how come you've been getting in trouble these days? >> because there's nothing really for us kids to do. parks are starting to be filled with gang members, taggers, a lot of stuff.

so it's kind of hard living in a motel because they don't want you to play outside where kids want to play. >> and then some of us kids wa't somqáhing that other people have so we just take it. >> like what? >> different stuff. like ipods, computers. >> anything that you own. people steal your clothes and stuff if they know what you have and they like it. they pretty much just take it from you. so he did that, too. >> sometimes i did it for attention, and sometimes i >> w do you want attention? >> because usually i don't get attention. >> why not? >> i don't know why not. because my mom is too busy.

the blisters were oozing, and painful to touch. i woke up to a blistering on my shoulder. i spent 23 years as a deputy united states marshal and i've been pretty well banged up but the worst pain i've experienced was when i had shingles. when i went to the clinic, the nurse told me that it was a result of having had chickenpox. i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

it's in the trash. there's a whole bunch of stuff. >> get out of the trash can now! i said for you guys to get out of the trash can now.

both of you. >> look it. look it. >> let's get out of here. >> i'm looking for more toys. >> josh you can't have that. you'll go to jail. >> come on. >> you're going to go to jail. >> go tell his mom. >> go tell his mom. >> what did you find in the

trash? let me see what you found in the trash. >> get out of the trash. >> i am. >> you're getting treasures. [ yelling ] >> i asked you nicely. do you want to get kicked out? then you've got to get out. >> nope. >> come on. you don't need that.

come on. let's go. >> what's the first day of the week? >> i know. >> january. anuary is the first month. >> i know. >> february. >> that's a month. >> i know. i know. >> yes? >> march. >> that's the third month. i'm looking for a day of the week. you want to sing a song? >>ñyeah. >> sing the song. >> no, listen to the song for the days of the week. >> we do take care of the kids. they come in and they get breakfast a'd lunch, which is part of the state program. and so that's -- there's no cost to t$at. you know, as far as what they get from the state, i wouldn't eat it. i don't think it's healthy. >> ew, look at.

>> adrian. >>  got to eat the whole thing. >> how is your lunch, joshy? >> we have a group that takes care of donating food to the families every single week, every single student gets one backpack of food every week to take home. there's actually no cost for anything here at project hope with the kids that are here. they don't have to pay for textbooks, or supplies. everything is provided for them. they know that no matter what every day, they are okay, if they come here, they'll be taken care of. and i'll do whatever i can with whatever resources i have to help out the kids and their families. i would say that at least half of the kids that come here y at least have a job. but then there's others that, you know, will get pregnant ep)ly. they'll go to jail early. >> can you tell when you are

wasting your time? >> yes, but you can't give up o% the kids. >> and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible -- his country? tell me why you like this country. >> because it's -- we get to -- the homeless get to have free food instead of paying when they are homeless. >> how about you. why do you like america? >> if homeless people don't have food or money, we would give them it, and i don't know. josh, you look so different. ]dc(ñqgñ/twg

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>> i'm getting a shield. >> get me a shield. >> get your own. yeah, you betteñ keep your shield. >> come on. >> so, josh, you like living across the street from disneyland? >> yeah. >> why? ou can see the fireworks every single day. i really want to see them. >> josh. josh, the fireworks go off and, boom. i said so.

look at the cars over there. [ car alarms blaring ] >> grand finale. >> mr. turtle. >> are you excited about third grade? >> no. >> why not? >> they have hard math. and hard other stuff. here.

>> what's for lunch, cassidy? >> tortillas, applesauce and -- >> here. >> thank you. >> an orange and a chocolate milk. >> what is your cheer? let's see you do a cheer. >> let's go. let's go. >> so would you consider yourself a happy kid or a sad kid? >> mostly a sad kid. >> why? >> because i have lots more sad days than happy days. i slept at the park, i slept -- i've had to sleep at my mom -- my little sister's grandma's house. and -- >> what's it like to sleep in the park?

>> actually not so fun. >> why? >> because we wake up and we have nowhere to get dressed. >> what's it like living at the motel? >> like you're in hell under the ground and the devil is like being so mean. because usually cops come in and tell -- to our motel. people keep going to jail. and that's what my mom doesn't like about that. and i don't like it either. >> what kind of things do they do that make them go to jail? >> they beat up moms. they steal stuff. they drink alcohol. >> what's the worst thing you've cuffs. he got cuffed. >> what did he do? >> he hit a woman.

he like choked her. and then the cops came and thev took him to jail. >> so tell me, how is the food in the soup kitchen? >> this is not very good but it's something to eat. >> what are you doing here? what's this? >> not a lot. >> my check.

>> you don't have a lot. >> a lot of overtime. this is 40 hours plus ten hours of overtime. >> mandatory overtime. >> so how much did you make this week? >> $499.84. >> how much would you have to make p' hour to be able to get you figure, okay, we're going to be fair, we'll say $1200. so then you've got your utility bills. then you have food and gas, car insurance. you would need to make -- you'd need to make about $3,000 a month. $20 an hour. >> okay, cassidy. thank you. cassidy, you shaved your head. cassidy why did you shave your head?

>> because i have lice. >> where are you living these days? >> nowhere. >> what do you have to look forward to in your life? >> nothing. >> you have nothing in your life to be excited about. >> nothing. >> nothing at all? >> nothing at all. to take action. to take the next step. today, you will know you did something for your pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a pain reliever fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior

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zach, where are you moving to? >> don't know. don't care. >> do you have any weekly rates? what would the rate be for two adults and two children? >> why are you moving? >> because we have to. >> why? >> because. >> you got thrown out? >> yep. >> why? >> cause.

>> because they don't want us here anymore, which is okay with me because i want to move, too. >> so where are you headed? >> off to the border of fullerton and anaheim. >> no, not that. she told ray she'd give him 20 bucks for gas. we're borrowing it. >> near the 91 freeway. there's a park around t$e corner

and then eventually i can switch back over to patrick henry which is around the corner and down the street. the school that ally used to go to. straight down the street from disneyland. yeah, so it's a better movq it's only $19 more than this place. >> daddy, do you have gas? do you hut(áháo pick me up? i have a stomach ache. do you have gas because i have a no? okay. bye. bye.

i have a stomach ache. >> what's wrong with your stomach?% >> i don't know because every time i try to go to sleep, my stomach starts hurting. >> so why did you call your parents p'd have them come pick you up? >> because my dad doesn't have gas and my mom doesn't have % money to get on the bus, and my mom doesn't have the car. >> so you're stuck here? >> and i have to go to -- i havc to wait until 5:00. >> what? >> i have to wait till 5:00.

>> you have to sit here all dpv until the bus takes you home? >> we're going to the beach. >> field trip. >> yes!/saq >> we're almost there. we're almost there. we're here!

>> i love when we go on field trips like this because the kids turn into kids. all of a sudden, they're nothing except happy, wonderful children. and those are great sounds to hear. >> yeah! that was awesome!

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